In a frigid apocalypse, I went on a shopping spree with the reborn.

Although Jiang Qingyue had already reported that she was safe, Long Jiuxing still greeted her anxiously when she returned to the shelter.

"Sister Xiaoyue," Long Jiuxing hugged her tightly, "I don't know why, but I feel very uneasy today."

"It's my fault. I should have left the baby with you." Jiang Qingyue promised, "I'll take you with me when we go out from now on."

Upon receiving this promise, Long Jiuxing's inexplicably panicked heart, which had been pounding all day, miraculously calmed down, and he softly said, "Okay."

He then looked at the person being carried on the Corpse King's shoulder with an unfriendly gaze: "What's this?"

Jiang Qingyue explained, "Wang Dawei, this guy took over his brother's body."

Long Jiuxing's face darkened: "He's really hard to kill."

Wang Dawei remained silent. He was in a daze and only wanted to die, but he hadn't found an opportunity along the way.

"If it's hard to kill, then we won't kill." Jiang Qingyue took Long Jiuxing's hand and looked at both of them. She saw that there were no injuries, only that the calluses on his palms were thicker.

She felt a pang of heartache, but there was nothing she could do. She had the ability to raise Long Jiuxing to have skin as smooth as jade, but that would also ruin Long Jiuxing. In such an environment, raising Long Jiuxing into a pampered princess was not heartache, but harming her.

Compared to losing my life, these calluses on my hands are nothing.

"Let's go back first. It's hard to explain in a few words on the quantum computer, but at least we'll have a post-apocalyptic dictionary to consult from now on."

"So this is where it is." Wang Dawei was filled with regret when he saw the shelter.

This is simply a case of the blind spot being right under your nose.

He had always assumed that Jiang Qingyue was either hiding in the city or deep in the mountains, but he never imagined that she would be living on this small hill in the suburbs, neither too far nor too close.

Once inside the shelter, Jiang Qingyue recounted the day's events to Long Jiuxing in detail, and then instructed him, "I know you hate him, but if he dies, who knows who will become next? So we can't kill him. But don't worry, I won't let him have a good life. I'll make him wish he were dead."

Hearing these words sent a chill down Wang Dawei's spine.

Her eyes darted around, but after scanning the area, she realized that the shelter was very tidy, divided into neat rooms, and there was no one else besides Jiang Qingyue and Long Jiuxing.

More importantly, the zombie holding him was completely obedient to Jiang Qingyue's words. It held him firmly, without changing its position, preventing him from moving at all.

He couldn't connect to the quantum computer, and since the spatial backpack was bound to it, he couldn't use it either.

Jiang Qingyue, who was standing next to Long Jiuxing, was already discussing with him how to make him wish he were dead.

The words that Long Jiuxing spoke were more frightening than the last.

"Sister Xiaoyue, how about I try to see if I can leave him with only his head and heart? I can dilute the plant doctor essence in water and soak his heart in it, then he won't be able to run away."

Jiang Qingyue remained silent: "..."

"Then should I thread him through the staff?" Long Jiuxing took out his Burning Heaven Fire Staff, enlarged it, and gestured: "I'll thread him through the staff, enlarge the staff at night, and stick it into the ground. That way, he'll be hanging in mid-air and definitely won't be able to escape."

Jiang Qingyue: "..."

Wang Dawei: "..."

Especially Wang Dawei, although he had known for a long time that Long Jiuxing was not a normal person, this was too inhuman.

Especially with her slightly chubby face, giving this advice so earnestly almost scared him to death.

"Longlong," Jiang Qingyue sighed, "You're already busy researching how to use the power of ice and snow to enhance your strength. How about we let me handle Wang Dawei?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Wang Dawei next to him nodded frantically.

He suddenly realized that compared to Jiang Qingyue, who had excellent knife skills, Long Jiuxing was simply inhuman.

Because you can never imagine what methods she will use to torture you.

He couldn't imagine the agony of being pierced from bottom to top by a stick, which would then grow to hundreds of meters long, leaving him half-dead and hanging in mid-air at the top.

"Should we guard him?" Long Jiuxing frowned. Sister Xiaoyue was already annoyed by having to guard the Corpse King, and it would be even more troublesome to guard Wang Dawei as well.

"It is guarding, but it's not me guarding," Jiang Qingyue said.

Jiang Qingyue looked at the chains on Wang Dawei's body and felt that it wasn't secure enough, after all, this guy was very strange.

Got it!

Jiang Qingyue had a sudden inspiration: "Come on, everyone, come out with me."

Once outside the shelter, Jiang Qingyue directed the Corpse King CEO to dig a hole, and like planting a tree, he planted Wang Dawei, who was bound by iron chains, into the hole.

"Alright, cover it up with soil."

The Corpse King CEO, completely bewildered, began to fill the soil back in, eventually reaching Wang Dawei's neck, leaving only his head behind.

Jiang Qingyue looked at Wang Dawei, who had a blank expression, and said with satisfaction, "Alright, go find a little zombie to serve him."

"Chirp chirp." Yan Bao Rabbit kicked its legs and darted away.

A short while later, he arrived with a level two zombie.

Second-tier zombies are not strong, but they have already gained intelligence and can understand human speech, making them practically chosen beasts of burden.

Jiang Qingyue instructed the second-tier zombie: "You just sit here and watch. If he tries to escape, beat him up and bring him back. If you can't bring him back, yell at him a few times. Yell at him a few times when he's about to die."

The Zombie King CEO also gave this second-tier zombie a death order.

After listening, the second-tier zombie actually grinned.

Great, I don't have to work anymore.

All it has to do is sit here and look at this head; what an idyllic life!

The second-tier zombie, fearing it would be replaced, sat down in front of Wang Dawei and let it watch him. It really watched him, its two eyes fixed on Wang Dawei without blinking, like a surveillance camera.

Wang Dawei barely turned his head, making a very small movement, but the second-tier zombie still thought he was trying to escape.

Snapped!

Wang Dawei got slapped hard across the face.

The slap completely stunned Wang Dawei. After a few seconds of stunned silence, he burst into tears, yelling, "Jiang Qingyue, you're not human! You dare kill me! Come on, kill me if you dare!"

Does speaking count as running away? The second-tier zombie growled twice in confusion, looking at its king.

The Corpse King CEO rushed over to demonstrate, and it attacked Wang Dawei's mouth with both hands.

The pain made Wang Dawei wisely shut his mouth, and his shouting finally stopped.

After the king's demonstration, the second-tier zombie nodded emphatically, indicating that it understood.

Then he stared intently at Wang Dawei's mouth, his palm raised in mid-air, ready to strike.

He proved with his actions that if Wang Dawei dared to utter a single word, he would be slapped across the face.

"It really works!" Jiang Qingyue happily led Long Jiuxing and the others home.

If someone were to guard this place, she would worry that they would be swayed by Wang Dawei's sweet talk.

Zombies don't have this problem at all, and they don't get tired or need to take turns.

In addition, zombies are very sensitive to human presence. When Wang Dawei's breathing becomes so low that he is almost gone, the zombies can keenly sense it and will give a warning. At that time, she can go and save him.

Having witnessed Wang Dawei's ordeal, the Corpse King CEO, upon returning to the shelter, picked up a hoe and began digging at the edge of the shelter without Jiang Qingyue's prompting.

They worked very hard.

Even Jiang Qingyue couldn't help but sigh, "As expected of a peerless genius among zombies, he has a keen eye. A zombie like this would do well anywhere."

After washing up, Jiang Qingyue noticed that Long Jiuxing hadn't gone to sleep but was instead sitting beside her, staring at her intently. She asked, "What's wrong? Did you encounter any problems during the dissection?"

"No." Long Jiuxing shook his head.

Jiang Qingyue tentatively asked, "Are you still feeling anxious?"

"No……"

"Then why don't you sleep with me tonight?"

Long Jiuxing blinked. So, it turns out that feeling anxious means you can sleep together?

"I feel anxious."

"Wait for me a moment." Jiang Qingyue took the chick out of her pocket and put it in Jiang Qingyan's small room: "Yanbao, I'll talk to it tomorrow and then make it a little nest. Please take care of it tonight."

Yan Bao, entrusted with an important task by her master, was very happy: "Chirp chirp chirp." Don't worry, I'm the best at taking care of the baby.

Jiang Qingyan moved her little nest to the side and looked at the small blanket her master had prepared for her. Although she was no longer afraid of the cold now that she was stronger, it was given to her by her master and she couldn't let others use it.

It ran to the storage area, found a new bath towel, put it on the small kang (heated brick bed), and then placed the sleeping little hen on the towel.

Half padding, half covering—perfect! I'm such a clever rabbit.

When Jiang Qingyue turned around, Long Jiuxing was already lying on the inside of the bed.

After turning off the lights, Jiang Qingyue took off her shoes and got into bed.

Thinking about the information I gathered from today's interrogation of Wang Dawei, I feel like there are still so many questions I need to ask.

For example, in the diary that Shen Yi received, Wang Dawei had marked her as an envoy.

These two words made Jiang Qingyue feel that this person's identity was extraordinary. However, Shen Yi, who had the identity of an envoy, had never appeared on any of the major ranking lists.

Not to mention the top of the list, I've never even seen someone in the top 100. The more special their identity is, the more low-key they are, the more Jiang Qing feels that she should find out about them.

It's also best to ask about any changes that might occur with the arrival of the fourth cold wave, so that we can prepare in advance.

The more he thought about it, the more questions he felt he had to ask, and he even considered going out that night to demonstrate his knife skills to Wang Dawei again.

She gently turned over and found that Long Jiuxing's breathing was a little rapid, and he didn't seem to be asleep at all.

Remembering that she had heart problems before, she quickly leaned closer and asked softly, "Longlong? Where does it hurt?"

While asking the question, she took out a Plant Doctor Essence from her spatial storage.

"Sister Xiaoyue, I'm fine, don't worry."

"What's with the stubbornness? We have plenty of healing essence." He said, stuffing the essence into her mouth.

Long Jiuxing gently raised his hand to shield himself, saying, "I'm really fine."

"real?"

"Um."

Jiang Qingyue touched her forehead and cheeks and saw that she was indeed not sweating profusely from the pain like before, but her rapid breathing still made her a little uneasy.

He grabbed her wrist and pressed his fingers against her pulse.

I counted twice, and my heart rate was around 140 both times.

"That shouldn't be the case. You weren't exercising just now, so how can your heart rate be so high while lying flat? Do you experience this when you have heart palpitations during the day?"

Long Jiuxing felt a little guilty: "No, it's different."

"What's the reason? Never mind, whatever the illness, taking an essence pill is always a good idea." Jiang Qingyue said, stuffing the whole Plant Doctor essence pill into Long Jiuxing's mouth.

Strangely, the essence, whose healing abilities were considered miraculous, caused Long Jiuxing's heart rate to rise even higher after he consumed it, instead of decreasing.

Jiang Qingyue counted three times in a row, and each time it was around 145.

While this heart rate wouldn't cause any problems for Long Jiuxing's body, it was clearly abnormal.

Jiang Qingyue turned on her personal terminal: "Let me ask Nangong Zhao if there are any doctors in her team."

"No need." Long Jiuxing pressed her hand down, pursing her lips. "Sister Xiaoyue... if I lied, could you please not be angry?"

"lie?"

"Um."

"So your high heart rate and insomnia are because you have something on your mind, and you're feeling uneasy?"

Long Jiuxing nodded: "When I was at noon, I was really worried because it was almost dark and you hadn't come back yet, but after you came back, I wasn't worried anymore. Don't worry."

Jiang Qingyue didn't speak, but sat on the bed, looking down at her slightly.

"I just wanted to say that we hadn't seen each other all day and I wanted to chat with you more. You were the one who suggested we sleep together, and I couldn't bear to refuse."

Long Jiuxing's voice grew softer and softer: "I'm sorry, Sister Xiaoyue, I didn't expect to make you worry, and I wasted another Plant Doctor Essence."

Long Jiuxing was very annoyed. Although they didn't lack it, the essence of the plant doctor could be sold for a lot of trading coins, so that Sister Xiaoyue could raise 1000 million sooner and upgrade the light brain to level four.

Jiang Qingyue remained silent in the darkness for a long while.

He lay back down, pulled her into his arms, and covered her with the blanket: "Go to sleep. I thought it was something serious. You just wanted to sleep with me, didn't you? You should have said so earlier! My bed is so wide, even if I brought Yanbao and Zaizai over, there would still be room for them to sleep."

Long Jiuxing froze for a moment, then cautiously and tentatively reached out to wrap his arms around her waist: "I promise I won't lie anymore."

"It's alright." Jiang Qingyue patted her back. "Everyone tells a little white lie sometimes. It's good that you're alright."

Jiang Qingyue really didn't take it to heart. He just thought the girl was cute. She felt guilty for telling a small lie and her heart rate soared to over 140. Where can you find such an innocent person?

"If you want to sleep with me in the future, just come over. But I'm a restless sleeper; I toss and turn all night. You'll have to be able to handle it."

"You can come again in the future!" In the darkness, Long Jiuxing's eyes shone with an alarming light.

She couldn't tell what her emotions were; they were complicated, and she didn't want to think about them. All she knew was that this sentence made her very, very happy.

"Come on, come every night." Jiang Qingyue thought of how she had been lying alone in a hospital bed since she was a child, and perhaps she was afraid of that loneliness, so she softened a bit: "If you like a lively atmosphere, I'll make the bed bigger, and then we can move Yanbao and Zaizai over to sleep."

"Although there is no heated kang in my room, everyone's physical condition has improved now, so they can sleep very well without a heated kang."

Long Jiuxing: "They're here too?"

"Yes, I don't know if you like fluffy things, but Yanbao feels so good to the touch now. When it grows up a bit more, it will be so comfortable to cuddle and sleep with it."

In the darkness, Long Jiuxing glanced at Jiang Qingyan's small room outside the room, and for some reason, felt somewhat unwilling.

But hearing the joy in Xiaoyue's tone, and remembering that Xiaoyue usually loves to pet rabbits.

In addition, Yan Bao and Zai Zai are still in their cub stage and probably need companionship, just like her, they can't live without Sister Xiao Yue.

Since all three of them need Sister Xiaoyue, she shouldn't be so selfish.

Ignoring the slight reluctance in his heart, Long Jiuxing said, "Then I'll move my bed, and Yan Bao's and Zai Zai's little nests over tomorrow."

"Mmm." Jiang Qingyue was a little sleepy, and responded drowsily, then fell asleep while holding the person in her arms.

She actually quite likes being around people. Some children can sleep in their own room when they are three or four years old, but she is very clingy and slept with her parents until she was six years old. She didn't have her own room until she started first grade.

I can understand why Long Jiuxing is love-starved and clingy, and I am willing to fill the void in her childhood.